Buses from Laheema to Tallinn

How often do the buses go from Laheema to Tallinn and vice versa? Is there an online timetable? What time does the last bus go from Laheema to Tallinn each day?

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Timetable for buses: www.bussireisid.ee/index.html?MENU=%26KEEL=en

But you have to write the name of the village or town you would like to depart from- because Lahemaa is the name of the national park that has many villages and there is no this kind of bus stop called Lahemaa.

Even to the bigger towns like Võsu in Lahemaa buses go only about 3 times a day.

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Thanks very much, it took some time for me to open the link. The times of the buses for a day trip from Tallinn are not so good. I calculate that we would only have about 7 hours in Vosu if we went on a Friday. Is that enough? It seems to be the main place to go or do you recommend somewhere else in the park with a better bus service for a day trip?

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Hei!

Going by public bus is definitely the cheapest choise, but you may also want to consider joining an organised tour. One that I found by quick search is:

reisiekspert.ee/default.asp/…ee

but I know there should be several companies organising day tours. You may wish to ask about it from, they should know all about it:

Tallinn Tourist information Centre

Niguliste 2 / Kullassepa 4

Tallinn 10146

ph +372 6457 777

fax +372 6457 778

turismiinfo@tallinnlv.ee

all the best!

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Thank you for that information. I am now considering another option. Maybe we should stay overnight in Rakvere and take the bus the next day to somewhere like Altja? How can we find out about the open air theatre schedule for Rakvere?

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I%26#39;m just back from visiting Estonia. I found the buses were great within Tallinn but otherwise totally useless.

Depending on how long you want to stay there a day tour might be better.

I took the minibus tour from Estadventures that runs on a Friday, it went to a bronze age burial site (Rebella), a peat bog (Viru), two manor houses (Palmse and Sagadi), a short woodland walk in a river valley with beaver%26#39;s dams (Oandu), and a few coastal villages (Vosu, Altja, and... urm... another one).

The places are all lovely and well worth seeing, but I think this was probably a better tour than some of the bigger ones might have been as it was a small minibus rather than a big tour coach, and I suspect coaches couldn%26#39;t have got to a lot of the places.

I%26#39;m very glad I did it that was as you could never have seen that number of places by public transport, and while they were all lovely and you wouldn%26#39;t want to miss seeing them, I wouldn%26#39;t have wanted to make an entire day of any of them.

Alternatively, if you are into cycling that might be another better way of getting around the area than public transport. Citybike in Tallinn will hire you a bike, take you into the national park, and pick you up again later in the day. However unlike Estadventures they will only do it if you have two or more people.

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Thanks so much for that Barry. It is a great help. The problem with this tour is that we really wanted to enjoy being out in the countryside rather than seeing lots of places and also our budget, which really does not stretch very far at all. This bike option sounds better and since there are two of us we will check it out. It sounds like a great idea.

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Having looked a the website, it also looks a little over our budget. I am also beginning to wonder if Laheema is all forest, or if any coastal walks are possible?

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There is definitely coast in Laheemaa, so walks are possible!

Where to walk would be another question, especially in terms of getting there without a car.

I can vouch for that the walk north from Kasmu is very nice, but I%26#39;m not sure how much of the walk is coastal, I only went a very short distance. For slightly more hardcore walking my map also shows that there%26#39;s a 10km walk from Altja to Vainupea, but Altja is 2 bus a day territory and Vainupea seems to have none at all.

It%26#39;s not within Laheema park, but I had a lovely coastal walk closer to Tallinn, and you can get there by bus easily and cheaply.

If you take the bus from the Viru Centre to Viimsi Haigla (very frequent), and then one of the white GO minibuses numbered V-something to the coast (buy different bus ticket to the Tallinn ones from the driver for 10EEK each way, service not as frequent as hourly), you can get a nice walk much closer to Tallinn, at a total cost of about £2.

I went to Ruhuneeme on the V1, went down to the coast from the bus turning circle and walked right (Left looks nicer on google earth, but it%26#39;s actually blocked off). You can get buses back from either Ruhuneeme again, Kelvingi (2-3km down the coast), or Leppneeme (another 2km, part of walk is inland).

It%26#39;s not quite the same as Laheema though. But it%26#39;s a walk. And you still get pine forest down to the coast and water and so on, but the villages themselves are nothing at all compared to the more rural ones I saw on the Estadventures tour.

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Wow, that sounds great and much more practical for us. We are in Estonia for four nights we wanted to spend one of them outside Tallinn. Do you have any suggestions for a place that would be worth visiting and staying overnight?

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Estonia is such a lovely country it almost doesn%26#39;t matter where!

Depending on what you like you might want to see:

Tartu for an old university city with character (inland)

Parnu for city / beach resort

Kuressaare for a more rural town on a lovely island that%26#39;s a longer distance but still remarkably accessible. There%26#39;s also got to be some opportunities for walking there.

Bus is the practical way to get to all and the services are pretty good, but there%26#39;s also a not so bad train service to Tartu, and a pretty poor train service to Parnu.